Week 9

The work of art

Does anyone get to be an artist anymore?

  1. Roose, Kevin. “A.I.-Generated Art Is Already Transforming Creative Work.” The New York Times, October 21, 2022, sec. Technology. (article, 7 mins.)
  2. Chapter 7: “Generative Art as Candy Crush,” in Zylinska, Joanna. AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams. London: Open Humanities Press, 2020. http://openhumanitiespress.org/books/download/Zylinska_2020_AI-Art.pdf. (book chapter, 11 mins.)
  3. Reifik Anadol at the Museum of Modern Art, Unsupervised, https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5535 (work of art)
  4. Stable Diffusion and Generative AI with Emad Mostaque – 604, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Y1sMmidj4. (video, 43 mins.)
  5. AI/ML Media Advocacy Summit Keynote: Steven Zapata, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puPJUbNiEKg (video, 29 min.; start at about 5:00).

In-class links

Slides

Setting policy for AI